Vantaggi
- Super interesting space for someone technical - Decent amount of autonomy depending on who you report to
Svantaggi
- Tech lead holds shadow authority over product direction and all new eng hires. This creates a toxic ingroup/outgroup dynamic. This one guy has to like you in order for you to have anything meaningful to do. - Highly competitive space with 0 differentiation. Competing directly with model providers they are dependent on - Founders are awful at managing a company. They are "hackers" who really just want to code and not deal with any of the company stuff, and it shows. CEO still spends at least 1/2 his time coding. Hiring and firing multiple execs within months shows they have no idea what they're looking for (had 4 CMOs in the last 12 months, fired head of design, VP of sales, head of AI, etc etc) - CTO in particular is callous, manipulative, and treats humans like resources at his disposal. Saw multiple examples of him smiling in private conversations talking about firing people. Steer clear of this guy